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High Desert Oral and Facial Surgery breaking ground on new Far East El Paso location
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A new surgery facility is coming to Far East El Paso! High Desert Oral and Facial Surgery will hold a groundbreaking…
Continue ReadingParents ‘should be seen and not heard’ when it comes to kids and their friendships
By Michelle Icard, CNN (CNN) — As a parenting author, I travel the country speaking at schools about the complicated social changes that happen…
Continue ReadingTufts lacrosse players discharged from hospital after rare muscle injury, university says
By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — All nine members of the Tufts University men’s lacrosse team who were hospitalized this month with the rare…
Continue ReadingHelene is here. Do these 14 things now to prepare
By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — If you haven’t prepared already, the time is here. Hurricane Helene is expected to make landfall Thursday…
Continue ReadingDespite warnings, Texas rushed to remove millions from Medicaid. Eligible residents lost care.
By Eleanor Klibanoff, The Texas Tribune, and Lomi Kriel, The Texas Tribune and ProPublica Sept. 26, 2024 “Despite warnings, Texas rushed to remove…
Continue ReadingSuicide attempts increased among transgender teens when states passed anti-trans laws, study says
By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — People in the United States who identify as transgender or nonbinary make up only a tiny fraction of the…
Continue ReadingFree Covid-19 tests are available again. Here’s how to get them
By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — People in the United States can now order more free Covid-19 tests from the federal government as the country…
Continue Reading7 simple secrets to eating the Mediterranean way
By Karla Walsh, CNN (CNN) — What if “diet” wasn’t a dirty word? During Suzy Karadsheh’s childhood in Port Said, Egypt, diet culture was…
Continue ReadingLawmakers push for accountability after 10th death linked to Boar’s Head listeria outbreak
By Katherine Dillinger and Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN (CNN) — A death in New York has been linked with a listeria outbreak connected to recalled…
Continue ReadingEl Paso Children’s Hospital celebrates opening of its 8th floor
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso Children’s Hospital will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony today for its 8th floor. “El Paso Children’s Hospital…
Continue ReadingLGBTQ+ adults may have greater risk of poor brain health, likely due to ‘minority stress’
By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — Those in the LGBTQ+ community may have a higher risk of adverse brain health outcomes compared with straight…
Continue Reading1 in 3 children worldwide is now nearsighted, study shows
By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — More than a third of children around the world were nearsighted in 2023, and this proportion will rise to almost 40%…
Continue ReadingMany 988 callers will now get help based on where they are, not their phone’s area code
By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Major cell phone carriers have started to adopt a new technology that helps direct callers to the 988 suicide…
Continue ReadingPaso del Norte Health Foundation donates $5 million to Steve and Nancy Fox Cancer Center
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Texas Tech Health El Paso and the Paso del Norte Health Foundation just announced a $5 million grant to support the future…
Continue ReadingOfficers & other volunteers help kiddos at EP Children’s Hospital for “Childhood Cancer Awareness” Month
EL PASO (KVIA) — We’re in the middle of “Childhood Cancer Awareness Month” & El Paso Children’s Hospital will have a parade for the kiddos and…
Continue Reading‘Greed, greed, greed’: Sanders demands Ozempic maker lower prices
By Meg Tirrell and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — While grilling Novo Nordisk’s chief executive over the price of its blockbuster diabetes and…
Continue ReadingDoing this for 20 seconds a day can relieve stress and anxiety
By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, CNN (CNN) — A devoted meditator, Eli Susman wanted to deepen his practice, and his meditation journey took him across…
Continue ReadingPost-Roe, pregnant women face growing risk of criminal prosecution for charges much broader than abortion
By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — A fractured landscape of reproductive rights continues to evolve in the United States in the wake of the…
Continue ReadingChemicals linked to breast cancer leach into our foods, study finds
By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Nearly 200 chemicals connected to breast cancer are used in the making of food packaging and plastic tableware,…
Continue Reading3 Tufts University lacrosse players remain hospitalized after workout with Navy SEAL graduate
By Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — Three men’s lacrosse players at Tufts University remain hospitalized after a…
Continue ReadingFree Covid-19 tests will be available from the US government by the end of September
By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — The US government plans to make more at-home Covid-19 tests available for free this month as the country…
Continue ReadingA virus that could lead to paralysis in kids is on the rise. How worried should parents be?
By Faye Chiu, CNN (CNN) — Rates of enterovirus D68 infections are on the rise across the United States, according to the…
Continue ReadingOvarian Cancer: A silent killer affecting women of all ages
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, and medical experts are urging women to be aware of the subtle symptoms of this…
Continue ReadingWhooping cough cases rising across U.S.
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Whooping cough is on the rise in the U.S., and the CDC said protection from the illness’s vaccine is waning. So far this…
Continue ReadingHealth care worker is third person to become ill after contact with Missouri patient who had bird flu
By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — A third close contact of a patient in Missouri who was hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu has reported that they…
Continue ReadingKids are inhaling ‘Galaxy Gas’ to get high. Here’s what parents should know
By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — For some young people, a popular method for getting a quick high is by misusing laughing gas — and lately,…
Continue ReadingWhooping cough cases are soaring. Can infecting people help test a better vaccine?
By Brenda Goodman and Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Whooping cough is surging in the United States, with cases now five times higher than they…
Continue ReadingFDA approves first flu vaccine that can be self-administered at home
By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first flu vaccine that does not have to be…
Continue ReadingHeavy metal exposure could increase cardiovascular disease risk, study finds
By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — Exposure to heavy metals has been linked to cancer, neurological harms, and reproductive or developmental…
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